door

Word family noundoorbelldoorcasedoorframedoorkeeperdoorknobdoorknockdoorknockerdoormandoormatdoornaildoorpostdoorstepdoorstepperdoorsteppingdoorstonedoorstopdoorwaydooradjectivedoor-to-door

Related topics: Buildings, Household

door1 /dɔː $ dɔːr/ S1 W1 noun [countableC]

TBBDHthe large flat piece of wood, glass etc that you move when you go into or out of a building, room, vehicle etc, or when you open a cupboard 门 → gate

Could you open the door for me?

请你帮我开门好吗？

The door flew open and Ruth stormed in.

门一下子打开了，露丝气冲冲地跑了进来。

Don’t forget to lock the garage door.

别忘了把车库的门锁上。

→ fire door, French doors, revolving door(1), sliding door, stage door, swing door, trapdoor →4 See picture of 见图 door →4 See picture on 见图 Page A2 Car 汽车

2 DHthe space made by an open door 门口，出入口，门道 SYN doorway

in/out (of)/through the door

Rick turned and ran out of the door.

里克转身跑出门外。

I glanced through the open door.

门开着，我向里看了一眼。

3 at the door ARRIVEif someone is at the door, they are waiting for you to open the door of a building so they can come inside 在门口，在门外

There’s somebody at the front door.

前门有人。

Examples from the Corpus

at the door• Cover is $ 4 at the door.• Thanking her at the door, he asked who at the committee might know something and be willing to talk about it.• During my second evening at the hotel there was a knock at the door.• Debtors have difficult choices about whom to pay first; often they will pay the person at the door at the time.• The last thing he had expected was to find the police at the door.• I think there's somebody at the door.• I stood at the door and looked up, but the windows were dark; she had gone to bed.• When he turned at the door.• Jack was at the door almost as soon as Fogarty got himself off the sofa.

4 out of doors DLOOUT/OUTSIDEoutside 室外 SYN outdoors

I prefer working out of doors.

我更喜欢在室外工作。

Examples from the Corpus

out of doors• It can provide a place to play with toys and games and swings and slides, both in and out of doors.• They went without a flashlight, as the Managuans do if they are out of doors when the lights go out.• More and more people have come out of doors.• For everyone else out of doors it was an ordinary afternoon in la perla de la septentrion.• After all, animals lived out of doors naturally.• Then out of doors went the parade, and through gate after gate again.• New energy and resolve erupted from the simple act of moving their tiny toys out of doors!• They fed him, covered him when he was out of doors and kept him warm when he was within.

5 show/see somebody to the door GOODBYEto take someone to the main way out of a building 送某人到门口

My secretary will show you to the door.

我的秘书会送你到门口。

Examples from the Corpus

show/see somebody to the door• They stood to leave and as an afterthought Cobalt got up, too, and saw them to the door.• Amy helped him up and showed him to the door while Kath stripped off her gown and gloves.• Mrs Teal merely wished that Annie show Lois to the door.• Hanmer said as he showed me to the door.• I saw him to the door and watched him pace away along the streets he knew better than most others in London.• His neighbours, who regard him as a hero, respectfully show you to the door.• Then she showed them to the door.• My secretary will show you to the door.

6 two/three etc doors away/down/up NEARused to say how many houses or buildings there are between your house, office etc and another building 隔两/三户[幢房子]等

two/three etc doors away/down/up from

Patrick lived two doors away from me.

帕特里克的住处和我家相隔两户人家。

Examples from the Corpus

two/three etc doors away/down/up• Freda Berkeley misses her and another neighbour, the writer Patrick Kinross, who lived two doors away.• I took the keenest pleasure in expelling Phetlock from my old office, two doors down from the Oval.• Across the world, or two doors down the corridor.• He thanked the colonel for the interview and returned doggedly to his pistol lessons in the basement range two doors away.• The guest room's two doors down the corridor.• The second was in another bin beside the Argos showroom two doors away.• Mr Potts and the matrons left them in the church and went to stay two doors away, in a hotel.• He tried the house opposite, and was told two doors down.

7 (from) door to door

a) TRAVEL especially British EnglishBrE from one place to another 两地之间

How long is the journey, door to door?

全程有多远？

b) BBTgoing to each house in a street or area to sell something, collect money, or ask for votes 挨家挨户〔推销、筹钱或拉选票〕

Joe sold vacuum cleaners door to door for years.

乔挨家挨户推销真空吸尘器已很多年了。

→ door-to-door

Examples from the Corpus

(from) door to door• If you drive, it should take you 20 minutes door to door.• They went from door to door, questioning everyone, systematically searching for trapdoors.• We went door to door asking people to sponsor us in the race.• A religious group called the Legion of Mary went from door to door to collect these portions.• C., but the two cars make contact, door to door.• Every door to door salesman knows that.• One simple but often effective form of promotion is that of the door to door distribution of leaflets.• She did quite a wholesale trade with pedlars who used to retail the goods door to door in the surrounding villages.• So, he also sold vacuum cleaners door to door.• The journey door to door is a mile and a quarter. 3 minutes by car.

8. be on the door APTBOto work at the entrance to a theatre, club etc, collecting tickets 在〔剧院、俱乐部等〕门口把门[收票]

Examples from the Corpus

be on the door• One of his hands was on the door, the other extended to her.• The jury was told that Mr Johnson was on the door when the four arrived at his party at about three am.• Her name was on the door in a little metal card holder.• Now the millworkers craned their necks to read what was on the doors.

9 shut/close the door on something IMPOSSIBLEto make something impossible 使某事不可能发生

The accident shut the door on her ballet career.

这场事故使她的芭蕾舞生涯终结了。

Examples from the Corpus

shut/close the door on something• Come in, lads, come in and shut the door on the fog.• It watched her, unwinking, until she reached the room behind the shop and shut the door on its crimson gaze.• Lucker murmurs something to Jasper and leads him away closing the door on me.• A loss in this election will not necessarily close the door on the campaign.• She closed the door on them.• The previous owner had used a bathroom off one of the bedrooms as storage and simply closed the door on it.• Imagine asking that they close the door on me so I can see what it feels like.• Even so, Wickham was not ready to shut the door on the possibility.

→ at death’s door at death(7), → behind closed doors at closed(5), → get in through the back door at back door(2), → lay something at somebody’s door at lay2(19), → next door1, → open doors (for somebody) at open2(16), → open-door policy, → open the door to something at open2(16), → show somebody the door at show1(20)

COLLOCATIONS

verbs

open/close/shut the door 开门/关门

I opened the door and Dad was standing there.

我打开门,爸爸站在那里。

nCan you close the door as you go out?

slam/bang the door (=shut it loudly, usually because you are angry) 〔一般因为生气而〕摔门,砰地关门

He strode from the room, slamming the door behind him.

他大步走出房间,重重地摔上门。

answer the door (=open it for someone who has knocked or pressed the bell) 开门,应门

Lucy ran downstairs to answer the door.

露西跑下楼去开门。

a door leads somewhere (=used to say what place is on the other side of a door) 门通向某处

This door leads into the garden.

这扇门通向花园。

a door opens/closes/shuts 门打开/关上

We were still waiting for the train doors to open.

我们还在等火车开门。

a door slams/bangs (shut) (=shuts loudly) 门砰地关上

I heard the front door slam.

我听到前门砰地关上了。

a door flies/bursts open (=opens very suddenly and quickly) 门突然打开

nThen the door burst open and two men with guns came in.

a door swings open/shut (=moves forward to open or backwards to shut) 门一下子打开/关上

nThe door swung shut behind me.

a door slides open/shut (=moves smoothly to the side or back again) 门滑开/滑上

nThe lift doors slid open and we got in.

lock/unlock the door 锁上门/打开门锁

nI locked the door and turned out the lights.

bolt the door (=slide a metal bar across to fasten it) 闩上门

nOnce inside, he bolted the door.

knock on/at the door (=hit it with your hand to make someone open it) 敲门

nWho's that knocking at the door?

bang/hammer on the door (=hit it very loudly and urgently) 〔砰砰地〕捶门,砸门

nA policeman was banging on the door across the road.

tap on/at the door (=hit it very gently) 轻轻敲门

nI tapped on the door and opened it.

get the door (=open or close it for someone) 去开[关]门

Could you get the door for me?

请你帮我开门好吗？

ADJECTIVES/NOUN + door

the front/back/side door (=of a house) 前门/后门/边门

I heard someone knocking at the front door.

我听见有人在敲前门。

nUse the back door if your boots are muddy.

the main door (=the door into a building that most people use) 正门

The main door to the hotel is on Queen Street.

酒店的正门在皇后街上。

the kitchen/bedroom/bathroom etc door 厨房/卧室/盥洗室等的门

nThe kitchen door opened and Jake walked in.

the cupboard door British EnglishBrE, the closet door American EnglishAmE （壁）橱门

nBoth the cupboard doors were locked.

the fridge/oven door 冰箱门/烤箱门

nSteam came out as I opened the oven door.

a car door 汽车的门

nShe heard a car door slamming.

the passenger door (=for the person in a car who sits beside the driver) 副驾驶车门

nThe taxi driver was holding open the passenger door.

a rear door (=a door at the back of a vehicle) 后车门

nThe kids opened the rear doors and climbed in.

door + NOUN

a door handle (=that you move up or down to open a door) 门把手

nElla reached for the door handle.

a door knob (=that you turn to open a door) 球形门把手

nI turned the door knob and went into the room.

na door knocker (=a metal object on a door that you use to knock with)

There was a brass door knocker in the shape of a lion's head.

na door bell (=that you press to make it ring)

Adam walked up the path and rang the door bell.

a door key 房门钥匙

nShe was looking in her bag for her door key.

Examples from the Corpus

door• He kept walking up and down, up and down, on the pavement opposite her door.• At 44, she found most doors slammed shut.• I'd allowed the door to swing to behind me and just as it clicked shut, some one knocked.• He stepped outside, closed the doors, switched off the flashlight and walked back up the slope to the cottage.• A Sturmabteilung opened the door that led into the cabin and Frick walked through, the others following.• He got out of bed and tiptoed to the door to listen.• We had the trap door, the back door.

in/out (of)/through the door• In a slightly awkward movement, he shows her out the door.• I couldn't possibly get the peg in the door before he got his foot in it.• He stood in the door of the milking house, holding out the buckets for her to take.• His aide signaled to me to move quickly and followed us out the door.• Maybe we only come to fully appreciate many great athletes and artists just before they walk out the door.• More or less, Ijust walked out the door, and kept walking.• Got up and went out the door and everything looked different.• Carefully he peeked through the glass window in the door.

door2 verb [transitiveT]

to hit someone with a car door when they are riding past on a bicycle 开车门撞到〔骑自行车经过的人〕

I nearly got doored as I went past the flats in Camden Street.

我在经过坎登大街的公寓时差点被车门撞到。

Origin door

Old English duru “door” and dor “gate”

单词	door
释义	door Word family noundoorbelldoorcasedoorframedoorkeeperdoorknobdoorknockdoorknockerdoormandoormatdoornaildoorpostdoorstepdoorstepperdoorsteppingdoorstonedoorstopdoorwaydooradjectivedoor-to-door Related topics: Buildings, Household door1 /dɔː $ dɔːr/ ●●● S1 W1 noun [countableC] 1 TBBDHthe large flat piece of wood, glass etc that you move when you go into or out of a building, room, vehicle etc, or when you open a cupboard 门 → gate Could you open the door for me? 请你帮我开门好吗？ The door flew open and Ruth stormed in. 门一下子打开了，露丝气冲冲地跑了进来。 Don’t forget to lock the garage door. 别忘了把车库的门锁上。 → fire door, French doors, revolving door(1), sliding door, stage door, swing door, trapdoor →4 See picture of 见图 door →4 See picture on 见图 Page A2 Car 汽车 2 DHthe space made by an open door 门口，出入口，门道 SYN doorway in/out (of)/through the door Rick turned and ran out of the door. 里克转身跑出门外。 I glanced through the open door. 门开着，我向里看了一眼。 3 at the door ARRIVEif someone is at the door, they are waiting for you to open the door of a building so they can come inside 在门口，在门外 There’s somebody at the front door. 前门有人。 Examples from the Corpus at the door• Cover is $ 4 at the door.• Thanking her at the door, he asked who at the committee might know something and be willing to talk about it.• During my second evening at the hotel there was a knock at the door.• Debtors have difficult choices about whom to pay first; often they will pay the person at the door at the time.• The last thing he had expected was to find the police at the door.• I think there's somebody at the door.• I stood at the door and looked up, but the windows were dark; she had gone to bed.• When he turned at the door.• Jack was at the door almost as soon as Fogarty got himself off the sofa. 4 out of doors DLOOUT/OUTSIDEoutside 室外 SYN outdoors I prefer working out of doors. 我更喜欢在室外工作。 Examples from the Corpus out of doors• It can provide a place to play with toys and games and swings and slides, both in and out of doors.• They went without a flashlight, as the Managuans do if they are out of doors when the lights go out.• More and more people have come out of doors.• For everyone else out of doors it was an ordinary afternoon in la perla de la septentrion.• After all, animals lived out of doors naturally.• Then out of doors went the parade, and through gate after gate again.• New energy and resolve erupted from the simple act of moving their tiny toys out of doors!• They fed him, covered him when he was out of doors and kept him warm when he was within. 5 show/see somebody to the door GOODBYEto take someone to the main way out of a building 送某人到门口 My secretary will show you to the door. 我的秘书会送你到门口。 Examples from the Corpus show/see somebody to the door• They stood to leave and as an afterthought Cobalt got up, too, and saw them to the door.• Amy helped him up and showed him to the door while Kath stripped off her gown and gloves.• Mrs Teal merely wished that Annie show Lois to the door.• Hanmer said as he showed me to the door.• I saw him to the door and watched him pace away along the streets he knew better than most others in London.• His neighbours, who regard him as a hero, respectfully show you to the door.• Then she showed them to the door.• My secretary will show you to the door. 6 two/three etc doors away/down/up NEARused to say how many houses or buildings there are between your house, office etc and another building 隔两/三户[幢房子]等 two/three etc doors away/down/up from Patrick lived two doors away from me. 帕特里克的住处和我家相隔两户人家。 Examples from the Corpus two/three etc doors away/down/up• Freda Berkeley misses her and another neighbour, the writer Patrick Kinross, who lived two doors away.• I took the keenest pleasure in expelling Phetlock from my old office, two doors down from the Oval.• Across the world, or two doors down the corridor.• He thanked the colonel for the interview and returned doggedly to his pistol lessons in the basement range two doors away.• The guest room's two doors down the corridor.• The second was in another bin beside the Argos showroom two doors away.• Mr Potts and the matrons left them in the church and went to stay two doors away, in a hotel.• He tried the house opposite, and was told two doors down. 7 (from) door to door a) TRAVEL especially British EnglishBrE from one place to another 两地之间 How long is the journey, door to door? 全程有多远？ b) BBTgoing to each house in a street or area to sell something, collect money, or ask for votes 挨家挨户〔推销、筹钱或拉选票〕 Joe sold vacuum cleaners door to door for years. 乔挨家挨户推销真空吸尘器已很多年了。 → door-to-door Examples from the Corpus (from) door to door• If you drive, it should take you 20 minutes door to door.• They went from door to door, questioning everyone, systematically searching for trapdoors.• We went door to door asking people to sponsor us in the race.• A religious group called the Legion of Mary went from door to door to collect these portions.• C., but the two cars make contact, door to door.• Every door to door salesman knows that.• One simple but often effective form of promotion is that of the door to door distribution of leaflets.• She did quite a wholesale trade with pedlars who used to retail the goods door to door in the surrounding villages.• So, he also sold vacuum cleaners door to door.• The journey door to door is a mile and a quarter. 3 minutes by car. 8. be on the door APTBOto work at the entrance to a theatre, club etc, collecting tickets 在〔剧院、俱乐部等〕门口把门[收票] Examples from the Corpus be on the door• One of his hands was on the door, the other extended to her.• The jury was told that Mr Johnson was on the door when the four arrived at his party at about three am.• Her name was on the door in a little metal card holder.• Now the millworkers craned their necks to read what was on the doors. 9 shut/close the door on something IMPOSSIBLEto make something impossible 使某事不可能发生 The accident shut the door on her ballet career. 这场事故使她的芭蕾舞生涯终结了。 Examples from the Corpus shut/close the door on something• Come in, lads, come in and shut the door on the fog.• It watched her, unwinking, until she reached the room behind the shop and shut the door on its crimson gaze.• Lucker murmurs something to Jasper and leads him away closing the door on me.• A loss in this election will not necessarily close the door on the campaign.• She closed the door on them.• The previous owner had used a bathroom off one of the bedrooms as storage and simply closed the door on it.• Imagine asking that they close the door on me so I can see what it feels like.• Even so, Wickham was not ready to shut the door on the possibility. → at death’s door at death(7), → behind closed doors at closed(5), → get in through the back door at back door(2), → lay something at somebody’s door at lay2(19), → next door1, → open doors (for somebody) at open2(16), → open-door policy, → open the door to something at open2(16), → show somebody the door at show1(20) COLLOCATIONS verbs open/close/shut the door 开门/关门 I opened the door and Dad was standing there. 我打开门,爸爸站在那里。 nCan you close the door as you go out? slam/bang the door (=shut it loudly, usually because you are angry) 〔一般因为生气而〕摔门,砰地关门 He strode from the room, slamming the door behind him. 他大步走出房间,重重地摔上门。 answer the door (=open it for someone who has knocked or pressed the bell) 开门,应门 Lucy ran downstairs to answer the door. 露西跑下楼去开门。 a door leads somewhere (=used to say what place is on the other side of a door) 门通向某处 This door leads into the garden. 这扇门通向花园。 a door opens/closes/shuts 门打开/关上 We were still waiting for the train doors to open. 我们还在等火车开门。 a door slams/bangs (shut) (=shuts loudly) 门砰地关上 I heard the front door slam. 我听到前门砰地关上了。 a door flies/bursts open (=opens very suddenly and quickly) 门突然打开 nThen the door burst open and two men with guns came in. a door swings open/shut (=moves forward to open or backwards to shut) 门一下子打开/关上 nThe door swung shut behind me. a door slides open/shut (=moves smoothly to the side or back again) 门滑开/滑上 nThe lift doors slid open and we got in. lock/unlock the door 锁上门/打开门锁 nI locked the door and turned out the lights. bolt the door (=slide a metal bar across to fasten it) 闩上门 nOnce inside, he bolted the door. knock on/at the door (=hit it with your hand to make someone open it) 敲门 nWho's that knocking at the door? bang/hammer on the door (=hit it very loudly and urgently) 〔砰砰地〕捶门,砸门 nA policeman was banging on the door across the road. tap on/at the door (=hit it very gently) 轻轻敲门 nI tapped on the door and opened it. get the door (=open or close it for someone) 去开[关]门 Could you get the door for me? 请你帮我开门好吗？ ADJECTIVES/NOUN + door the front/back/side door (=of a house) 前门/后门/边门 I heard someone knocking at the front door. 我听见有人在敲前门。 nUse the back door if your boots are muddy. the main door (=the door into a building that most people use) 正门 The main door to the hotel is on Queen Street. 酒店的正门在皇后街上。 the kitchen/bedroom/bathroom etc door 厨房/卧室/盥洗室等的门 nThe kitchen door opened and Jake walked in. the cupboard door British EnglishBrE, the closet door American EnglishAmE （壁）橱门 nBoth the cupboard doors were locked. the fridge/oven door 冰箱门/烤箱门 nSteam came out as I opened the oven door. a car door 汽车的门 nShe heard a car door slamming. the passenger door (=for the person in a car who sits beside the driver) 副驾驶车门 nThe taxi driver was holding open the passenger door. a rear door (=a door at the back of a vehicle) 后车门 nThe kids opened the rear doors and climbed in. door + NOUN a door handle (=that you move up or down to open a door) 门把手 nElla reached for the door handle. a door knob (=that you turn to open a door) 球形门把手 nI turned the door knob and went into the room. na door knocker (=a metal object on a door that you use to knock with) There was a brass door knocker in the shape of a lion's head. na door bell (=that you press to make it ring) Adam walked up the path and rang the door bell. a door key 房门钥匙 nShe was looking in her bag for her door key. Examples from the Corpus door• He kept walking up and down, up and down, on the pavement opposite her door.• At 44, she found most doors slammed shut.• I'd allowed the door to swing to behind me and just as it clicked shut, some one knocked.• He stepped outside, closed the doors, switched off the flashlight and walked back up the slope to the cottage.• A Sturmabteilung opened the door that led into the cabin and Frick walked through, the others following.• He got out of bed and tiptoed to the door to listen.• We had the trap door, the back door. in/out (of)/through the door• In a slightly awkward movement, he shows her out the door.• I couldn't possibly get the peg in the door before he got his foot in it.• He stood in the door of the milking house, holding out the buckets for her to take.• His aide signaled to me to move quickly and followed us out the door.• Maybe we only come to fully appreciate many great athletes and artists just before they walk out the door.• More or less, Ijust walked out the door, and kept walking.• Got up and went out the door and everything looked different.• Carefully he peeked through the glass window in the door. door2 verb [transitiveT] to hit someone with a car door when they are riding past on a bicycle 开车门撞到〔骑自行车经过的人〕 I nearly got doored as I went past the flats in Camden Street. 我在经过坎登大街的公寓时差点被车门撞到。 Origin door Old English duru “door” and dor “gate”
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